Excerpt from Free Trade, Not Taxed Food: With Selected and Abridged Extracts From Newspapers, Speeches, and Reviews on These Subjects, and Proofs That the British Working Classes Are More Prosperous Than Those of the United States, France, or Germany Mulhall, in the last edition of his very useful Dictionary of Statistics, published in 1899, tells na, that the consumption of wheat in 1896 (the latest date which he names), was in Great Britain and Ireland 255 millions of bushels, or nearly 32 millions of quarters, and of this only 6 million. Of quarters were grown in Great Britain, so that 207 millions of bushels, or about 26 millions of quarters, were imported from abroad. In 1897, which is the last year quoted, the total importation of cornof all kinds into Great Britain was 357 millions of bushels, or about 44 millions of quarters, and of these 289 millions of bushels were from three foreign countries; the United States, 211 millions, Russ1a, 59 millions, and Roumania, 19 millions; leaving 68 millions from various other countries, includin our Colonies; consequently, less than one - fifth of a our importations of wheat m 1897 were from our Colonies and froin various other foreign countries than Russia, the United States, and Roumania. The Statesman' 8 Year Book for 1900 informs us that the total exports of wheat from Canada in 1898 were of the value of 323, 987, but, in 1896, they were only of the value of 91, 685, consequently if we relied on Canada for our wheat, and if the United States threw a large quantity of land under grass from being unable to sell their grain in England, under a Preferential Tariff with our Colonies, and if there was a. Bad harvest general] over the world, bread might rise to 1s.101d.per 4 1. Loaf, as in 1801. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.